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SAT Reading: Short Passages Drill 2, Problem 1

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Holy Shmoop, Batman! Another question... Go ahead and hit pause so you can review this

00:08

passage. We're not going anywhere.

00:16

According to the information given in the passage, which of the following is true about

00:20

our understanding of the ocean floor?

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And here are the potential answers...

00:35

Here's the awesome thing about short passages:

00:37

no matter how boring they are, they're quick to sift through.

00:40

In this case, we're looking for the truest statement, so let's evaluate each of our answer

00:47

choices in turn. First, we can eliminate (A)...

00:50

Because lines 9 through 10 tell us that it took several hundred years to develop our

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knowledge of the ocean floor, so the first navigators couldn't have figured it all

00:59

out on their own.

01:02

We can cross out (B) as well, because lines 5 through 9 tell us that the first navigators

01:06

did at least figure out that the ocean floor varies in depth.

01:09

Choice (E) is easy to toss overboard because the first line tells us that most of the earth's

01:14

surface is below water.

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We can nix (D), because the final line tells us everything going on with land is connected

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with what's going on underwater. So (C) is the only correct answer.

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Maybe it's a good thing the early navigators didn't figure it all out at once.

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It might've been too much to handle.

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